In the world of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), servers are a solved problem. We spin up thousands of VMs with a single script. But the network layer? That often remains a manual bottleneck.
The reason is the “Multi-Vendor Trap.” Enterprise networks are rarely homogeneous. They are a patchwork of routers, switches, and load balancers from different vendors (Cisco, Juniper, F5), each with its own proprietary CLI syntax. This fragmentation makes standard automation difficult, leading to long lead times (often weeks) just to open a VLAN or update a firewall rule.